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The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts
Reinhart Koselleck,Todd Presner +1 more
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The need for theory in the discipline of history has been discussed in this article, with a focus on social history and concepts of historical time and social history, as well as the concept of crisis.Abstract:
1 On the Need for Theory in the Discipline of History 2 Social History and Conceptual History 20 3 Introduction to Hayden White's Tropics ofDiscourse 38 4 Transformations of Experience and Methodological Change: A Historical-Anthropological Essay 45 5 The Temporalization of Utopia 84 6 Time and History 100 7 Concepts of Historical Time and Social History 125 8 The Unknown Future and the Art of Prognosis 131 9 Remarks on the Revolutionary Calendar and Neue Zeit 148 10 The Eighteenth Century as the Beginning of Modernity 154 11 On the Anthropological and Semantic Structure of Bildung I70 12 Three biirgerliche Worlds? Preliminary Theoretical-Historical Remarks on the Comparative Semantics of Civil Society in Germany, England, and France 208 13 "Progress" and "Decline": An Appendix to the History of Two Concepts 218 14 Some Questions Regarding the Conceptual History of"Crisis" 236 15 The Limits of Emancipation: A Conceptual-Historical Sketch 248 16 Daumier and Death 265 17 War Memorials: Identity Formations of the Survivors 285 18 Afterword to Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of Dreams 327read more
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Transparency: From Enlightenment to Neoliberalism or When a Norm of Liberation Becomes a Tool of Governing
TL;DR: A conceptual genealogy of transnational transparency can be found in this paper, where the authors explore the multiple competing and conflicting mobilizations of the notion of transparency through time to liberate, to deliberate, to legitimize, to control, to structure or to govern.
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Geography and Enlightenment in the German states, c.1690 – c.1815
TL;DR: In this paper, acknowledgements and a Declaration are given, along with a summary of the work's history. But they do not discuss the authorship of the Declaration itself.
Genealogies of feminism : leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic revival in contemporary Morocco
TL;DR: Guessous as mentioned in this paper explored how Moroccan feminists of this generation came to be constituted as particular kinds of modern leftist subjects who: 1) discursively construct tradition as a problem, even while positively invoking it and drawing on its internal resources; 2) posit themselves as "guardians of modernity" despite struggling with modernity's constitutive contradictions; and 3) are unable to parochialize their own normative assumptions about progress, modernity, freedom, the body, and religion in their encounter with a new generation of women who wear the hijab.
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The Buried Life of Things: How Objects Made History in Nineteenth-Century Britain
TL;DR: The Buried Life of Things as mentioned in this paper explores how the Victorians used material culture to express their sense of the past in an age of progress, especially the biblical past and the past of classical antiquity.